Budget Laptop worth your money

By Hari Mohanon

It was designed to be a budget-minded desktop-replacement configuration with a full-size keyboard, 1TB of storage and more.That’s the good news: that the price is reasonable, and that the component mix is a decent one for the money. The counterpoint is that every low price nonetheless has the true price it exacts, of course. When you buy a budget laptop, you’re buying a PC that required compromises somewhere along the line.Since this is a desktop-replacement notebook, it’s overall large, and it includes a full-size keyboard, along with a roomy number pad at right. In a nice touch, the keyboard is spill-resistant, if not spill-proof.Though the notebook is a mere 0.85 inch thick (pretty slim, given the price and large dimensions in the other directions), it stretches out to 14.9 inches across and is 10.2 inches deep. It weighs a few feathers less than five pounds, which is pretty typical for laptops of this class. It’s made of black plastic and feels solid without being too heavy.The battery is on the low-capacity side, at 40 watt-hours, but Dell claims that the runtime should be good for up to 8.5 hours. (We'll get into that claim on the next page.) The star of the show is the 15.6-inch LCD panel, which surprised us by supporting touch-input functionality, though it is low-resolution for the size at 1,366x768 pixels. (All of the other configurations of the Model 3558 use the same 1,366x768 panel but don't support touch input.)This screen resolution is one of those necessary compromises that we mentioned earlier, and it's clearer to see the limitations of 1,366x768 (often called "HD" by vendors) on a big screen like this one. But the good news is that lower-resolution panels are easier on the graphics silicon and CPU, given that you have fewer pixels to push. And that can allow for longer battery life compared to a laptop, all else being equal, that has a higher-resolution panel.The touch pad, meanwhile, is reasonably large and offers gesture support that worked well. We were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the touch experience here and on the LCD panel, given the price of this laptop.The brains of the operation is an Intel Core i3-5015U processor, which is a 5th-Generation Core "Broadwell" chip with two cores and four threads. (Yes, at this price: support for thread-doubling Hyper-Threading!) It runs at 2.1GHz and is a 15-watt part, and the clocks and cores/threads have decent gumption for a budget CPU.Graphics power is provided by the integrated Intel HD Graphics 5500 silicon on the Core i3 CPU. The CPU is coupled with 6GB of DDR3L low-voltage memory that runs at 1,600MHz. This is an unusual increment of RAM (most laptops come with 4GB or 8GB), but we like the fact that it’s more than the 4GB allotment we typically see in laptops of this caliber. This should be more than enough to run Windows 10 assuming no super-demanding apps are in play, and it should be just fine for light multitasking work, too.When it comes to expansion ports, the Inspiron 15 3000 series offers just the basics, but the edges don't seem barren. The left side of our test unit offered (from front to back) an SD-card reader slot, one USB 3.0 port, an HDMI 1.4 video-out port, and a Gigabit Ethernet jack, along with the connector for the laptop's AC adapter.*This laptop comes with UBUNTU OS which can be changed to Windows 10 later.

Good product

By Subhenduon

Only good on paper

By Mukul Sharmaon

Good on paper, extremely poor on performance. Dell should actually be ashamed of making such a product.Pros : Battery backup, speakers.Cons : Processing speed - it is so slow that it will end up being nothing but a pain in your a**.Buy if you wish to remain intact on Ubuntu only and watch movies and listen to some music, but in case you're thinking of installing windows on this thing- stay away from this machine. Google and you will find the reviews on Dell offical forum to verify my views.

Must read before buying it?

By RISHAV CHAKRABORTYon

Best in price segment! Fits for everyone from daily use to official use! If you are gamer then this laptop is not for you! And if you are starter then you can run some low function games. GTA 5 will run on it easily on low fps!

Dell always good.

By Anukumaron

Dell is always a good quality laptop and systems. Easy to work and for rough use. Good performance, no lagging. The configuration is excellent. I recommend to others.

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